Cerro Ameghino
| Ameghino | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 5,950 m (19,520 ft)[1] |
| Prominence | 585 metres (1,919 ft) |
| Parent peak | Aconcagua |
| Coordinates | 32°37′32.52″S 069°58′37.55″W / 32.6257000°S 69.9770972°W |
| Geography | |
  Ameghino Argentina | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Parent range | Central Andes, Andes |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 13881 - Juan Semper y Ángel Landi (Argentina) |
Ameghino is a mountain in Argentina. It has a height of 5,950 metres (19,521 ft).
Location
[edit]It is located at Las Heras Department, Mendoza Province, at the Central Andes.
Elevation
[edit]Based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models, SRTM (5931m[2]), SRTM2 (5935m[3]), ASTER (5900m[4]), SRTM filled with ASTER (5935m[5]), TanDEM-X(5956m[6]), Ameghino is about 5950 meters above sea level.[7][8]
The height of the nearest key col is 5365 meters,[9] so its prominence is 585 meters. Ameghino is listed as mountain, based on the Dominance system [10] and its dominance is 9.83%. Its parent peak is Aconcagua and the Topographic isolation is 4.4 kilometers.[11] This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.[12]
External links
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ "Ameghino". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "USGS EROS Archive - Digital Elevation - SRTM Coverage Maps". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission - Filled Data V2". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Ameghino". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Ameghino". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ ap507. "Academic and adventurer describes the incredible task of climbing and cataloguing one of the most remote regions of the South American Andes mountains — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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